Marking Period 4 -Great For You?

Wal-Mart's new food label

Wal-Mart, one of the biggest food-selling corporations in America, have added a new label to make it nice and obvious what foods are "Great for You". Starting this spring, Wal-Mart has slapped the nice, big, green label on many of its in-house brands. They intend to work with other food brands and health groups to make labels First Lady Michelle Obama, supported the effort to help people make healthy choices. Goals announced included cutting back on sodium in packaged foods and eliminating industry produced fats. However, it's too early to tell whether or not the "Great For You" labels really will help consumers or if they'll just be another label among the plethora of labels already out there.

Marking Period 4 -Nutrition continued...

Why Aren't G.M.O. Foods Labeled?

Everything from sugar to trans fats to MSG can be found on the label, but not G.M.O.s (genetically modified organisms). Why? because they don't want to suggest or imply that these foods are "different" or "dangerous". Genetically engineered foods are of course different: they may grow faster, require fewer pesticides/fertilizers/herbicides, and reduce stress on land and water. However, they aren't all dangerous. People just steer away from them without even knowing much about them and how they work. What they really don't know is that G.M.O.'s already exist in a lot of our food, and more is probably on its way, but producers still are reluctant to label them -something that seems demeaning and undemocratic.